diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/lxd.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/lxd.py
index cdbc80f410..5326cd995c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/lxd.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/lxd.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
 
 import os
 from distutils.spawn import find_executable
-from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
         local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
 
-        call(local_cmd)
+        process = Popen(local_cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+        process.communicate()
 
     def fetch_file(self, in_path, out_path):
         """ fetch a file from lxd to local """
@@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
 
         local_cmd = [to_bytes(i, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for i in local_cmd]
 
-        call(local_cmd)
+        process = Popen(local_cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+        process.communicate()
 
     def close(self):
         """ close the connection (nothing to do here) """